on Alaska while stationary, wheels on the ground etc and deploying chaff i was killed by a CLAWS. It was at the far heli spawn that gives a view of the map by just flying up a few metres and i had gone up once but since come down again. a CLAWS fired a missile and from firing to hitting me i was on the ground the entire time deploying chaff. what am i meant to do in this situation?
Stay away from aim9x range??
Aim9x ingame its an IR missile with strong IRCCM, chaffs do nothing thats for radar missiles, neither do flares cause irccm.
The only way to counter it its having a broken heli with LDIRCM. Or just fly the opposite direction so the aim9x loose its speed and fall into the ground.
Its like when someone shoots a spike on you, just fly further until the missile gives up.
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And on a lot of maps, helis can kill vehicles from spawn. Especially if you are rocket tossing from helipad.
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Pantsirs and BUKs can do the same on Alaska it’s a terrible spawn for helis.
I’m actually surprised the CLAWS could detect you!
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… how does one do that.
You can target a coordinate on the map, then right click and your heli will align with that coordinate in a way to allow you to hit that coordinate. With modern AA being so large, you can bombard from very far away .
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Nifty. Thank you.
honestly good
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A. it was an aim-120
B. I was at the far spawn
thats exactly my point, why should anything be able to detect a statiuonary object on the ground
How does an AIM-120 hits you when using a helicopter and very low altitude.
cool you dont like helis, i get it. how does it feel to know you add absolutley nothing and yet you still speak
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idk thats the bloody point of this post
It must be a random gaijin moment, because ARH missiles usually dont act that way ingame. I doubt it will happen again.
i mean they managed to lock and launch several missiles while i was on the ground from lock to impact
AIM-9X is doing what IRIS-T used to do, and I don’t see people mad about it, why hasn’t it been nerfed yet.
shhh, you want to drag others into the german dark bottom?
As Im aware that happens with IR missiles, like FIM92K, if you got a lock on a target but it hides, you still can launch it and it will guide like normally, but you have like 2-3 secs before loosing lock. Idk if this also happens with radar missiles, never killed a heli with the derby
Easy solution: Remove 4km Heli Spawn
and reduce helirush sp to 50 due to the change here
This might explain why I’ve been killed by so called teammates when I spawn in the Claws. 1 one pushed me out of cover into enemy fire and the other pushed me out of bounds which also killed themselves. Both also happened to be members of clans. Tempted to name and shame but I’ll refrain from doing so.
Reported both instances but pretty sure nothing will happen to them.